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Reviews of Kalambo

• Judheim Kassamali

  5

  Reviewed: 2022-11-18

  One of those rare gems in Tanzania, about an hour and a half from Sumbawanga town towards the quaint fishing village at the tip of Lake Tanganyika called Kasanga. Just off this route within the Kalambo Elephant conservation is the majestic 235m waterfall between Tanzania and Zambia.

• AmericanoWorldWide

  5

  Reviewed: 2022-03-07

  $10 per person to enter. You don’t need a guide. Falls can be viewed from above (very short hike) and below(although not all the way to the bottom, still under construction) (very short but 200 meters of stairs, bring lots of water)

• Anne Mwape

  5

  Reviewed: 2022-03-06

  This place was beautiful. The drop produced a wonderful noise. The road to the falls was quite rough but worth it. Also note that the visit was during the rainy season and the road is gravel, so parts of it had been washed away by the rain. The last 2km were impossible for our Runx so we parked and walked. The walk to the falls was okay but the walk back! Omg....I felt the incline. But if you have done kundalila from the bottom up, you can handle this. Google maps will mislead you with regards to the location so use maps me or organic maps. Directions: From lake chila lodge in mbala turn right at the T junction (left takes you to town). You will drive for about 2 or 3km you will see a poster to the great kalambo falls lodge at the poster turn left and keep driving for about 30km. There are posters as you go. There are 2 other falls in the kalambo falls area, 200m and 50m away from kalambo but the guide said we could only access them in the dry season. So for the sake of roads and extended adventure visit the falls in the dry season, the down side is the water levels will have dropped and so the waterfall itself may not be so magnificent. Within the falls, there is a lodge called great kalambo falls lodge, we did not stay there but the owner of that lodge is the same owner of the lodge we stayed at so I will assume the service is the same or better considering it is slightly more expensive than the one we stayed at. Great experience, worth the visit.

• Liesel81

  5

  Reviewed: 2021-07-06

  Beautiful waterfall and surrounding. Absolutely breathtaking. Interesting thing about this fall is that it's shared by two countries. I have visited it from the Zambian side but not yet the Tanzanian side of it. There is a property right next to the falls in case you want to stay over night. If not you can visit the falls on a daytrip from mbala

• Saif Al Hinai (SAH)

  4

  Reviewed: 2019-03-08

  Beautiful We visited this place near zambia border. The river is the border. Kalambo is around 3 hrs drive from sumbawanga. Tarmac road all the way except last 30km or so. Good road but need 4 wheel drive. At the gate you have to pay shs 3,000 (around 1. 5 usd) per person. You have to register your name and contact. There is a government guard who will take you first to the source (where it starts to fall 250m). There are only 100 steps to go down. In front of you across the river around 20m u will see zambia. Then u need to climb back ans driv fir another 10 min to start climbing down around 650 steps be4 you see the whole waterful drop. If you are fit you have further 300 steps (total around 950 steps) to reach the bottom. Perfect view, you will feel the mist. You need at least 1.5 hrs at the fall. Highly recommended.